Study on the Effect and Gender Difference of Social Capital on Political Participation of Woman Significant Talents: Evidence from the 3rd Survey on the Status of Chinese Women

Abstract

With the data from the third Survey on the Social Status of Chinese Women, the situation of woman significant talents’ social capital and political participation was discussed, and a multiple regression model was introduced to analysis how a woman significant talent’s social capital influenced her political participation decisions. It was found that the factors including gender, age had positive influence on political participation within the social-political system; among factors from social capital, factors including the resource allocation factor, strong connection, the horizontal network factor also had positive influence on political participation within the system. According to woman samples, it was found that resource allocation factor and horizontal network factor exert positive influence on political participation within the social-political system, while strong connection factor had negative influence. It was also found that the weak connection factor had significant positive influence on political participation out of the system, and the horizontal network factor had significant negative influence on political participation out of the system.